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Digital insider : digital information news from the State Library of NC

M I C H E L L E U N D E R H I L L
What do Blind Boy Fuller, the Catawba River, and Manteo
have in common? Thanks to a new partnership between
the State Library of North Carolina and the
University of North Carolina Press, they now have
entries in NCpedia! This partnership, announced
in February 2012, will make content from the
Encyclopedia of North Carolina and Dictionary of
North Carolina Biography available to anyone,
anywhere, for free through NCpedia. NCpedia is
an online encyclopedia about North Carolina that is
managed by the Government & Heritage Library’s Digital
Information Management Program (DIMP) at the State
Library and hosted by NC LIVE. It is online at
http://ncpedia.org.
Some of the first entries added from the University of
North Carolina Press’s resources include biographical
entries about African Americans, American Indians, and
women from North Carolina from the Dictionary of North
Carolina Biography, and overview articles about African
Americans, American Indians, Lumbee Indians, and
Cherokee Indians from the Encyclopedia of North Carolina.
Based on recommendations from school media
specialists across the state, NCpedia has also added
articles from the Encyclopedia about rivers, the Krispy
Kreme Doughnut Corporation, and Cheerwine.
Additional articles are being added weekly. View all
NCpedia entries from UNC Press resources at
http://ncpedia.org/unc‐press.
DIMP staff who will focus on the NCpedia expansion
include Mike Childs, Digital Publishing Librarian,
Michelle Underhill, Digital Projects Manager, Emily
Horton, Digital Media Librarian, and Josh Wilson,
Systems Support Librarian.
Other NCpedia content partners include the Research
Branch of the North Carolina Office of Archives and
History, the North Carolina Museum of History, the
North Carolina State Archives, the NC Wildlife
Resources Commission, and the North Carolina
Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. Individuals across the state have also contributed
articles to NCpedia.
The expansion of NCpedia will take place continuously
over the next few years. It is made possible by a Library
Services and Technology Act grant through the
Institute of Museum and Library Services.
DigitalInsider
0 5 \ 0 2 ( S p r i n g 2 0 1 2 ) D i g i t a l I n f o r m a t i o n N e w s f r o m t h e S t a t e L i b r a r y o f N C
The D i g i t a l I n f o rma t i o n
Managemen t P r o g r am
(DIMP) work s t o p r e s er ve
democr a c y by p r o v idi n g
f r e e d om o f a cc e s s
t o North Car o l i n a s t a t e
government i n format ion
NCpedia now includes content from UNC Press
D E A N F A R R E L L
150 years ago this month the Civil War completed its first year; far longer
than almost anyone at the time expected. What was going on in North
Carolina during this turbulent period? Read the article and follow the links
to Department of Cultural Resources digital resources to learn more.
Union troops under General Ambrose Burnside had seized control of much
of the eastern North Carolina waterway by early April of 1862, including
Roanoke Island, New Bern, Washington and Fort Macon at Beaufort Inlet
in Carteret County, and were pressing inland towards the Dismal Swamp
Canal in an attempt to destroy the canal’s locks to prevent the movement
of supplies and shipping between Norfolk, Virginia, and the Albemarle
Sound. Union forces were particularly concerned about the C.S.S. Virginia
(Merrimack) using the canal as an entry to the Albemarle Sound after its
engagement in March at Hampton Roads at the mouth of the James River
in Virginia with the U.S.S. Monitor in the first battle of ironclad vessels in
history.
The campaign reached its zenith at the battle of South Mills on April 19th.
3,000 Union troops under the command of General Jesse Reno engaged
Colonel Ambrose Wright’s 3rd Georgia Infantry supported by the Giles
Light Artillery at Sawyer’s Lane about three miles from the town of South
Mills in Camden County.
The Union advance was stopped by
Confederate artillery. Union forces
brought their own batteries forward
and returned fire. The cannonade went
on for three hours at which point the
infantry units were engaged.
Eventually, the Confederate forces succeeded in their goal of preventing
the canal’s destruction. Union forces declined to pursue the retreating
Confederates, instead opting to withdraw to New Bern.
Union casualties totaled 13 killed and 101 wounded, while Confederate
casualties numbered 6 killed and 20 wounded.
The Civil War in North Carolina: April 1862
More North
Carolina in the Civil
War online ...
NC Civil War 150
NC Digital Collections
NC Museum of History
NCpedia
... and in person ...
North Carolina
Historic Sites
P a g e 2
What’s on in the Digital World?
North Carolina and the Titanic
April 15th was the 100th anniversary
of the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic.
While this tragedy affected the
entire country, are there any spe‐cific
North Carolina connections to
this famous disaster? The answer is
yes.
Of the 2,224 people on board the
Titanic, there was only one known
native North Carolinian: postal
clerk Oscar Scott Woody. Born
near Roxboro, in Person County,
Woody unfortunately perished in
the sinking. His death was viewed
as noble and honorable as he died
fulfilling his duty, trying to save
sacks of mail from the flooding
post office by lugging them up on
deck. An article in the Raleigh
News and Observer, and reprinted
in Woody’s hometown newspaper,
The Roxboro Courier, said, "More
than one North Carolinian today,
when it was learned that the dead
mail clerk hailed from ‘down
home,’ expressed their satisfaction
that North Carolina courage had
not been found wanting in that
fearful test” and noted that he
"Died Like a North Carolinian."
Woody is an enigma as there is
little information on him, and
some of that is suspect: His age is
typically given as 44, and his birth
year as 1868. This doesn't match
his 1910 marriage license applica‐tion,
or the 1880 and 1900 cen‐suses,
where 1871 is the year. His
connection to his home state is
also uncertain as his work required
frequent travel; first as a railroad
mail clerk going from Greensboro
to D.C., and secondly with the Sea
Post boarding ships in New York
City. His wife lived in Clifton, Vir‐ginia.
Read more about Oscar Scott
Woody and see pictures and news
articles in the NCpedia at
http://ncpedia.org/biography/
woody‐oscar‐scott.
PubMed Central.
So what’s the big deal? By
implementing this policy as a
requirement for funding, the NIH
made the statement that citizens
should not have to pay for access
to research results, if those results
are federally funded. This follows
the lead of funding agencies in
other countries, like the Research
Council UK and Wellcome Trust in
the UK, who require open access to
funded data and research after a
short embargo.
Journal publishers, who in the past
might have charged for access to
those articles forever, argued that
the NIH policy impeded their
profitability. As they had
previously testified before
Congress, publishers have been
unable to point to such impact. In
fact, since the NIH policy was
implemented, many journals have
gone farther than the mandate.
Since 2008, the number of journals
who have implemented immediate
open access on PubMed Central
(not even waiting for the 12‐month
embargo) have tripled.
In February 2012, after almost four
years of successes following the
NIH policy’s implementation, the
Federal Research Public Access Act
(FRPAA) was introduced to
Congress. FRPAA would extend an
open access policy like NIH’s to 11
other federal agencies. The Act has
renewed discussion about open
access and its impact on authors,
publishers, and citizens. Many
librarians, especially those at
institutions with research faculty,
follow this discussion closely both
to accommodate long‐term
preservation of research data and
to provide access to that data for
their patrons and staff. The
concept of open access to
information that was previously
provided at a cost continues to
produce a lively debate in the
digital world.
Preservation Week 2012
took place from April 22‐28
and staff of the GHL cele‐brated
with a lobby display
(with the State Archives)
and through blog posts and
tweets about digital preser‐vation,
focusing on the
topic of personal digital
preservation, each day that
week.
Specific topics covered
included saving digital
photos and scanned docu‐ments,
archiving Facebook
profiles with our new,
online tutorial, an introduc‐tion
to our IMLS funded
CINCH tool, and a survey of
the personal digital
preservation outreach
readiness of librarians
and archivists across
North Carolina.
More information about
digital preservation can
be found at our website.
The Library of Congress
also has excellent tips for
preserving personal
digital materials, like
photographs, email, and
music, at their website,
as well.
Be sure to check them
out!
Open Access Debates in Congress
and Beyond
The term “open access” is used in
many parts of the digital world to
mean the ability to view
information without cost to the
user. It’s a term that’s seen
frequently, most recently in
relation to data and research
produced by federally funded
agencies.
In 2008, the National Institute of
Health (NIH), which provides large
grants for medical
research around the
nation, implemented the
NIH Public Access Policy.
It requires that (1)
scientists whose research is funded
by the NIH submit their peer‐reviewed
manuscripts to a digital
archive upon acceptance to any
journal and (2) that those
manuscripts are provided to the
public, free of charge, 12 months
after that date, through
M I K E C H I L D S
L I S A G R E G O R Y
Digital Information Management Program of the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources
http://ncculture.com

M I C H E L L E U N D E R H I L L
What do Blind Boy Fuller, the Catawba River, and Manteo
have in common? Thanks to a new partnership between
the State Library of North Carolina and the
University of North Carolina Press, they now have
entries in NCpedia! This partnership, announced
in February 2012, will make content from the
Encyclopedia of North Carolina and Dictionary of
North Carolina Biography available to anyone,
anywhere, for free through NCpedia. NCpedia is
an online encyclopedia about North Carolina that is
managed by the Government & Heritage Library’s Digital
Information Management Program (DIMP) at the State
Library and hosted by NC LIVE. It is online at
http://ncpedia.org.
Some of the first entries added from the University of
North Carolina Press’s resources include biographical
entries about African Americans, American Indians, and
women from North Carolina from the Dictionary of North
Carolina Biography, and overview articles about African
Americans, American Indians, Lumbee Indians, and
Cherokee Indians from the Encyclopedia of North Carolina.
Based on recommendations from school media
specialists across the state, NCpedia has also added
articles from the Encyclopedia about rivers, the Krispy
Kreme Doughnut Corporation, and Cheerwine.
Additional articles are being added weekly. View all
NCpedia entries from UNC Press resources at
http://ncpedia.org/unc‐press.
DIMP staff who will focus on the NCpedia expansion
include Mike Childs, Digital Publishing Librarian,
Michelle Underhill, Digital Projects Manager, Emily
Horton, Digital Media Librarian, and Josh Wilson,
Systems Support Librarian.
Other NCpedia content partners include the Research
Branch of the North Carolina Office of Archives and
History, the North Carolina Museum of History, the
North Carolina State Archives, the NC Wildlife
Resources Commission, and the North Carolina
Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. Individuals across the state have also contributed
articles to NCpedia.
The expansion of NCpedia will take place continuously
over the next few years. It is made possible by a Library
Services and Technology Act grant through the
Institute of Museum and Library Services.
DigitalInsider
0 5 \ 0 2 ( S p r i n g 2 0 1 2 ) D i g i t a l I n f o r m a t i o n N e w s f r o m t h e S t a t e L i b r a r y o f N C
The D i g i t a l I n f o rma t i o n
Managemen t P r o g r am
(DIMP) work s t o p r e s er ve
democr a c y by p r o v idi n g
f r e e d om o f a cc e s s
t o North Car o l i n a s t a t e
government i n format ion
NCpedia now includes content from UNC Press
D E A N F A R R E L L
150 years ago this month the Civil War completed its first year; far longer
than almost anyone at the time expected. What was going on in North
Carolina during this turbulent period? Read the article and follow the links
to Department of Cultural Resources digital resources to learn more.
Union troops under General Ambrose Burnside had seized control of much
of the eastern North Carolina waterway by early April of 1862, including
Roanoke Island, New Bern, Washington and Fort Macon at Beaufort Inlet
in Carteret County, and were pressing inland towards the Dismal Swamp
Canal in an attempt to destroy the canal’s locks to prevent the movement
of supplies and shipping between Norfolk, Virginia, and the Albemarle
Sound. Union forces were particularly concerned about the C.S.S. Virginia
(Merrimack) using the canal as an entry to the Albemarle Sound after its
engagement in March at Hampton Roads at the mouth of the James River
in Virginia with the U.S.S. Monitor in the first battle of ironclad vessels in
history.
The campaign reached its zenith at the battle of South Mills on April 19th.
3,000 Union troops under the command of General Jesse Reno engaged
Colonel Ambrose Wright’s 3rd Georgia Infantry supported by the Giles
Light Artillery at Sawyer’s Lane about three miles from the town of South
Mills in Camden County.
The Union advance was stopped by
Confederate artillery. Union forces
brought their own batteries forward
and returned fire. The cannonade went
on for three hours at which point the
infantry units were engaged.
Eventually, the Confederate forces succeeded in their goal of preventing
the canal’s destruction. Union forces declined to pursue the retreating
Confederates, instead opting to withdraw to New Bern.
Union casualties totaled 13 killed and 101 wounded, while Confederate
casualties numbered 6 killed and 20 wounded.
The Civil War in North Carolina: April 1862
More North
Carolina in the Civil
War online ...
NC Civil War 150
NC Digital Collections
NC Museum of History
NCpedia
... and in person ...
North Carolina
Historic Sites
P a g e 2
What’s on in the Digital World?
North Carolina and the Titanic
April 15th was the 100th anniversary
of the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic.
While this tragedy affected the
entire country, are there any spe‐cific
North Carolina connections to
this famous disaster? The answer is
yes.
Of the 2,224 people on board the
Titanic, there was only one known
native North Carolinian: postal
clerk Oscar Scott Woody. Born
near Roxboro, in Person County,
Woody unfortunately perished in
the sinking. His death was viewed
as noble and honorable as he died
fulfilling his duty, trying to save
sacks of mail from the flooding
post office by lugging them up on
deck. An article in the Raleigh
News and Observer, and reprinted
in Woody’s hometown newspaper,
The Roxboro Courier, said, "More
than one North Carolinian today,
when it was learned that the dead
mail clerk hailed from ‘down
home,’ expressed their satisfaction
that North Carolina courage had
not been found wanting in that
fearful test” and noted that he
"Died Like a North Carolinian."
Woody is an enigma as there is
little information on him, and
some of that is suspect: His age is
typically given as 44, and his birth
year as 1868. This doesn't match
his 1910 marriage license applica‐tion,
or the 1880 and 1900 cen‐suses,
where 1871 is the year. His
connection to his home state is
also uncertain as his work required
frequent travel; first as a railroad
mail clerk going from Greensboro
to D.C., and secondly with the Sea
Post boarding ships in New York
City. His wife lived in Clifton, Vir‐ginia.
Read more about Oscar Scott
Woody and see pictures and news
articles in the NCpedia at
http://ncpedia.org/biography/
woody‐oscar‐scott.
PubMed Central.
So what’s the big deal? By
implementing this policy as a
requirement for funding, the NIH
made the statement that citizens
should not have to pay for access
to research results, if those results
are federally funded. This follows
the lead of funding agencies in
other countries, like the Research
Council UK and Wellcome Trust in
the UK, who require open access to
funded data and research after a
short embargo.
Journal publishers, who in the past
might have charged for access to
those articles forever, argued that
the NIH policy impeded their
profitability. As they had
previously testified before
Congress, publishers have been
unable to point to such impact. In
fact, since the NIH policy was
implemented, many journals have
gone farther than the mandate.
Since 2008, the number of journals
who have implemented immediate
open access on PubMed Central
(not even waiting for the 12‐month
embargo) have tripled.
In February 2012, after almost four
years of successes following the
NIH policy’s implementation, the
Federal Research Public Access Act
(FRPAA) was introduced to
Congress. FRPAA would extend an
open access policy like NIH’s to 11
other federal agencies. The Act has
renewed discussion about open
access and its impact on authors,
publishers, and citizens. Many
librarians, especially those at
institutions with research faculty,
follow this discussion closely both
to accommodate long‐term
preservation of research data and
to provide access to that data for
their patrons and staff. The
concept of open access to
information that was previously
provided at a cost continues to
produce a lively debate in the
digital world.
Preservation Week 2012
took place from April 22‐28
and staff of the GHL cele‐brated
with a lobby display
(with the State Archives)
and through blog posts and
tweets about digital preser‐vation,
focusing on the
topic of personal digital
preservation, each day that
week.
Specific topics covered
included saving digital
photos and scanned docu‐ments,
archiving Facebook
profiles with our new,
online tutorial, an introduc‐tion
to our IMLS funded
CINCH tool, and a survey of
the personal digital
preservation outreach
readiness of librarians
and archivists across
North Carolina.
More information about
digital preservation can
be found at our website.
The Library of Congress
also has excellent tips for
preserving personal
digital materials, like
photographs, email, and
music, at their website,
as well.
Be sure to check them
out!
Open Access Debates in Congress
and Beyond
The term “open access” is used in
many parts of the digital world to
mean the ability to view
information without cost to the
user. It’s a term that’s seen
frequently, most recently in
relation to data and research
produced by federally funded
agencies.
In 2008, the National Institute of
Health (NIH), which provides large
grants for medical
research around the
nation, implemented the
NIH Public Access Policy.
It requires that (1)
scientists whose research is funded
by the NIH submit their peer‐reviewed
manuscripts to a digital
archive upon acceptance to any
journal and (2) that those
manuscripts are provided to the
public, free of charge, 12 months
after that date, through
M I K E C H I L D S
L I S A G R E G O R Y
Digital Information Management Program of the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources
http://ncculture.com